ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Texas starter Cody Bradford pitched 4 1\/3 effective innings in his first appearance since September 2024, and Justin Foscue\u2019s two-run triple highlighted a four-run third inning as the Rangers beat the San Francisco Giants 6-0 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Bradford worked around traffic in all but the third inning of his first outing in 679 days following elbow surgery in June 2025. The left-hander allowed five hits and two walks, throwing 70 pitches.<\/p>\n
Reliever Tyler Alexander (2-2) got the final two outs of the fifth, leaving two runners on. Alexander struck out three in 1 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n
The Rangers (57-58) won the last two games after dropping Monday\u2019s series opener, their season-worst sixth straight loss. The AL West leaders by two games on July 28, they trail first-place Houston by 1 1\/2 games.<\/p>\n
The Giants (48-67) fell 19 games under .500 for the first time this season, having lost seven consecutive road series. They left 11 men on base, going 0 for 8 with runners in scoring position.<\/p>\n
Bradford was 10-6 with a 4.28 ERA from 2023-24 and made five postseason relief appearances in Texas\u2019 run to the 2023 World Series title.<\/p>\n
Five of the first six batters who faced Giants left-hander Carson Whisenhunt (2-3) a second time reached base, including Foscue\u2019s first career triple and doubles by Wyatt Langford and Elias D\u00edaz.<\/p>\n
Brandon Nimmo drove in two runs, including a homer sliced down the left field line in the fifth off Carson Seymour.<\/p>\n
Whisenhunt has allowed 14 earned runs in 11 2\/3 innings in his last three starts.<\/p>\n
It was Texas\u2019 10th shutout this season. San Francisco was shut out for the 11th time.<\/p>\n
Rangers RHP Nathan Eovaldi (10-9, 4.31 ERA) will pitch on Friday against visiting Baltimore. The Giants didn\u2019t announce a starter for Friday\u2019s home game vs. Detroit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Texas starter Cody Bradford pitched 4 1\/3 effective innings in his first appearance since…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,32775,139964,77358,56050,122555,139499,84002,941,23681,202,196,42094,197,942,96231,53646],"class_list":["post-398718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-brandon-nimmo","tag-carson-seymour","tag-carson-whisenhunt","tag-cody-bradford","tag-elias-diaz","tag-giants-rangers-score","tag-justin-foscue","tag-nathan-eovaldi","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40776-ap-california-sports-only","tag-product-40815-ap-texas-sports-only","tag-tyler-alexander","tag-wyatt-langford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}